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Plants marked with an asterisk * will not be ready until May or June – or even later

 

 

Galega ‘His Majesty’
Goat’s Rue. Easy, stout-hearted plant with spikes of veitch-type flowers
for many weeks and masses of pinnate foliage. ‘His Majesty’ has soft
lilac blue and cream flowers and a sweet coconut scent that fills the air
on still summer days. 2-litre pots.
*Sun or part shade, happy in dry conditions. Summer. 3ft. £4.80

Geranium ‘Brookside’
Pratense hybrid, with mounds of handsomely cut foliage and continuous
displays of pale eyed mid blue flowers. Large plants in 3-litre pots.
Sun or light shade. All summer. 18” £4.80

Geranium libani x peleponnseiacum
Rare Geranium of great, if fleeting, beauty. Attractive lobed leaves appear in
Autumn, followed by large Cambridge Blue flowers held well above the foliage.
Summer dormant. Dies down after flowering so best to mulch any exposed roots.
Sometimes needs to settle for a season before flowering well. from
Sun or light shade, well drained. Spring. 2ft. £4.00

Geranium ‘Mary Mottram’
Endressii seedling with pretty white flowers with just a hint of pink. Good value with the
usual endressii habit of flowering for months on end and love of poor dry conditions.
Can be cut back mid season when it will usually produce more flowers. 2-litre pots.
Sun or shade, dry conditions. All summer. 18” £4.80

Geranium nodosum ‘Whiteleaf’
Easy, free-flowering plant which will even cope with dense dry shade.
This very pretty new form has dark purple petals overlaid and edged
with pale lavender. 2-litre pots.
Sun or shade, any soil. Spring onwards. 18” £4.80

Geranium ‘Patricia’
Magnificent hybrid producing a canopy of large leaves and bright
dark-eyed magenta flowers all summer. 2-litre pots.
Sun or part shade. All summer. 30” £4.80

Geranium phaeum ‘Hannah Perry’
Unusual coloured Geranium with lilac-blue slightly flat flowers in early summer over
bright green foliage. Raised and named some years ago after my daughter. 2-litre pots.
Sun or shade. Spring. 2ft. £4.80

Geranium phaeum ‘Margaret Wilson’
Extraordinary Geranium with leaves so heavily variegated they have turned
a bleached mint green offset with darker veins. Stunning and coveted by all
who see it but slow to increase. from
Part or full shade, good soil. Late spring 15" £5.00

Geranium pratense ‘Else Lacey’
Very pretty free-flowering pratense seedling, with ruffled pale blue double to semi-double
flowers, each with a button green eye. Discovered growing in her garden by the late
Else Lacey and a fitting memorial to a great character and plantswoman. 2-litre pots.
Sun or light shade, good soil. Summer. 2ft. £5.00


Geranium pratense ‘Midnight Reiter’ strain.
The very darkest, beetroot coloured selected seedlings of Geranium ‘Victor Reiter’.
Tend to be more compact and slow to bulk up but worth the wait.
*Sun. Late spring/summer. 1-2ft £5.00


Geranium pratense ‘Plenum Caeruleum’
Choice double form with pretty pale lavender-blue flowers tinged with
pink. Leaves clump-forming and deeply divided. 2-litre pots.
Sun or light shade. Early summer. 2ft. £4.80

Geranium pratense ‘Plenum Violaceum’
Beautiful double with perfectly formed flowers of rich violet-blue with
darker centres and deeply divided foliage. 2-litre pots.
Sun or part shade. Summer. 2ft. £4.80

Geranium ‘Rozanne’
Without doubt the very best Geranium – every garden should have it.
Continuous displays of large, slightly cupped, upfacing blue white-centred
flowers from June to November. Happy in a well drained sunny site, ideal
for covering banks. PBR. 2-litre pots.
*Sun or part shade, well drained. All summer 18” £5.50

Geranium sanguineum var. striatum
Old fashioned but popular plant with abundant crimson veined pale pink
Flowers on wide hummocks of dark green divided leaves.
Sun or light shade. Summer. 15” £3.60

Geranium sanguineum ‘New Hampshire Purple’
New deep purple flowered form of this easy ground cover Geranium. 2-litre pots.
Sun or part shade. All summer. 12” £4.80

Geranium ‘Sirak’
Outstanding new hybrid produces masses of large purplish-pink flowers
for many months. Remarkably tolerant of dry shade. 2-litre pots.
Sun or shade. Early summer onwards. 15” £4.80

Geranium ‘Sue Crûg’
Splendid free-flowering hybrid from Crûg Farm. Forms a spreading mound with
large reddish purple dark-eyed flowers; each spaced petal has a pale central
stripe and veins. 2-litre pots.
Sun or part shade. All summer. 1ft. £4.80

Geranium wallichianum
Himalayan plant, ideal for trailing over low walls or weaving through neighbouring plants
in the border. Saucer shaped flowers, pinkish-purple with a white eye. 2-litre pots.
Prefers semi-shade, not too dry. All summer. 1ft. £4.80

Geum coccineum ‘Werner Arends’
Scarce old variety with vibrant deep orange flowers on short stems over neat
foliage. 2-litre pots.
Sun or light shade. Early summer onwards. 14” £4.80

Gillenia trifoliata
Graceful perennial with wiry reddish stems branching into flights of small white
flowers with red calyces which remain as the petals drop. 2-litre pots.
Sun or part shade, not too dry. Summer. 3-4ft. £4.80


Gladiolus papilio ‘Ruby’
New and exciting Gladiolus cross from New Zealand. Beautiful hooded ruby-crimson
flowers on wiry stems with tall narrow leaves. Very hardy and vigorous. At Hadspen
they cleverly interplant it amongst the burgundy leaves of Geranium ‘Victor Reiter’.
Sun, good well-drained soil. Summer. 3ft. £4.80

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